Citizens' Advocate (Coppell, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 2006 Page: 1 of 24
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September 29, 2006
VOLUME XXII, No. 39
Serving Coppell, Valley Ranch and Hackberry Creek Since 1984
Tuesday’s Meetings Were a Dog and Pony Show
Dogged Principal Cleared in
‘Buddy Gate’ Controversy
Seniors Overtake Horses in Council Showdown
By Jane Moore
Members of the Lakeside
Elementary community were
surely “dog tired” on Tuesday
night after an emotional and at
times confrontational meeting
in the school gym culminated
a daylong media frenzy over
school activity funds that were
spent on a poodle named
Buddy.
The trouble began several
months ago when some par-
ents asked longtime Lakeside
PTO treasurer Michael
Greenia how much PTO
money and school donations
had been spent on Buddy, who
was donated by a parent and
lives with and comes to school
with Principal Mark Lukert
Buddy won the dogfight in a
meeting on Lakeside Ele-
mentary activity fund expen-
ditures. -
every day as Lakeside’s “school
dog.”
“If people ask straightfor-
ward questions, I think people
should get straightforward an-
see DOGGED on page 22
By Jean Murph
Senior citizens quickly over-
took the horses in Tuesday night’s
City Council arena, with Mayor
Doug Stover announcing follow-
ing the meeting that nothing has
changed — the new senior cen-
ter will stay in its proposed place
and the horses will have to go.
Mayor Pro Tem Billy Faught
“Learn from them (se-
niors), as you I've enjoyed
the horses.n
— Mayor Pro Tem
Billy Faught
provided a solution to speakers
who expressed a fondness for
visiting horses on leased city
property at the entrance to
Grapevine Springs Park.
“Take them to see the se-
photo by Madison Norris
Horses came out the underdog at Tuesday's Council meeting.
niors,” Faught said. “They talk.
They don’t bite. (There are no)
fences. They are a true asset to
this community. Learn from
them, as you’ve enjoyed the
horses.”
Councilman Marsha Tunnell
told horse lovers in all serious-
ness, to audience laughter,
“There is a donkey on Bethel
School Road you can go see.”
Faught and Tunnell’s re-
marks were among those that
met with the approval of well
over 100 senior adults who
see HORSES on page 23
Board Approves Calendars
for Next Two School Years
A Series on Coppell’s Early History, Part LXVI
The Evolution of Coppell Schools, Part 2
By Jane Moore
CISD School Board mem-
bers on Monday night approved
calendars for the next two years,
with school starting later in Au-
gust and ending in June based
on new rules set by the state leg-
islature.
Classes will begin August
Mayor Says Be Vigilant After Incident
Mayor Doug Stover said
Tuesday that the near assault
at gunpoint of a Coppell mo-
torist last week should serve
as a warning to the commu-
nity that it must continue to be
vigilant in protecting itself, lock-
ing doors and watching sur-
roundings. “We shouldn’t let
our guard down,” he said.
Stover said he recently read
27 in 2007 and end June 5,2008.
Holidays include Labor Day,
Columbus Day (October 8) and
the traditional full week off for
Thanksgiving for students. In
December, classes will run
through December 21 and re-
sume on January 7,2008. Board
members did not like the fact that
see CALENDARS on page 23
that Dallas now has the highest
violent crime rate of any city in
the U.S.
No further information was
available on last week’s inci-
dent, in which a woman’s ve-
hicle was cornered by a car on
Mockingbird Lane. The pas-
senger pointed a gun at her as
she honked her horn and backed
up. The car drove off.
By Lou Duggan
In 1959 “Sammie Leslie
and Carroll Arnesman, Bill
| Rush, George Corbin, all of
| them were on the Common
| School District at that point,”
‘ former School Board President
Richard Lee said. “A Com-
mon School District was run
basically by the county out of
| the county office they have
| now. Coppell was one of the
| few left. The only thing they
| do now as far as I know is the
bus deal. But, Independent,
| then, you had your own school
| board. You answered to the
' people in Coppell. I think
■ George Corbin was the first
school board president and
; then he resigned. And they
| asked me to fill out his term. I
| think that was in ‘62 and then
Wood shop students make bird houses at Coppell’s red-brick
school around 1948.
in ‘63 I started running.”
“So, at that time, students
would go to Coppell School up
to eighth grade,” Lee said. “In
about '63 we added on to the east
end of the old building. The ad-
dition of classrooms was close,
but it was a stand-alone building
and it was for the upper-level
grades. The old part was for
the other grades. It was in '65
or '66 when we built the other
part of it.”
“At first students went to
Carrollton for high school,” Lee
see EVOLUTION on page 9
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Citizens' Advocate (Coppell, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 2006, newspaper, September 29, 2006; Coppell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1687415/m1/1/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cozby Library and Community Commons.